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She’s hemmed in by danger. As vintage clothing store owner Joanna Hayworth blissfully awaits her wedding a week away, her only challenge is to find the right dress. Then she discovers a dead drag queen among the sequined gowns and frothy wigs of the Fille Fantastique pageant. She does her best to help the police maneuver the social minefield of the drag world, until the dead queen’s “ghost” appears, accusing her of the murder.To clear her name, Joanna must investigate the strangely impassive family running a funeral home; a rival drag queen who’s gone AWOL; the obsessive proprietor of the queen’s favorite watering hole; and the mole-like man who lives in the cabaret’s basement. If Joanna’s not careful, her wedding will turn out to be a funeral.Angela M. Sanders worked for more than a decade as a congressional investigator before turning author and vintage clothing aficionado in Portland, Oregon. Besides the Joanna Hayworth Vintage Clothing mysteries, she writes the Booster Club capers.

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It’s a situation tailor-made for trouble. Portland, Oregon, vintage clothing store owner Joanna Hayworth is in a tight spot. Her plans to upgrade her store have derailed and costs are mounting. When she wins three trunks of vintage haute couture at auction, she thinks her luck has changed, but it’s about to get much worse. The clothing’s high society matron owner turns up poisoned, and police seize the wardrobe, leaving Joanna with more debt, a friend wrongly jailed for diamond theft, and a convent of quirky nuns depending on her for help. There only one way to calmer waters: find the murderer, and fast.

There’s no dressing up murder. All Portland vintage clothing store owner Joanna Hayworth wants to do is turn her back on the modern world and retreat into a carefully curated life of satin cocktail gowns, icy martinis, and old movies. But when Joanna finds a key in a 1930s Lanvin coat cast off by an ex-showgirl, everything changes. The elderly woman turns up dead, and Joanna is pulled into a long-ago drama of back room deals, blackmail, and lost love. She must find a very real—and present day—killer before she becomes his next victim.

“In the first of what I hope will be a long-running series, Angela Sanders has resurrected the art of the comic caper, and done so brilliantly. Quirky characters, lots of action, and hairpin plot turns make The Booster Club a must-read and pure gold entertainment.” ~PJ Alderman, New York Timesand USA Todaybestselling author of Haunting Jordan, a Port Chatham Cozy MysteryWhen it comes to good deeds, the Booster Club proves that crime pays. Claudine is a fourth generation cat burglar preparing to heist the famous Cabrini jewels when she’s drawn into finding a home for four children whose mother died in jail. She joins forces with Ruby—an outspoken hairdresser with a sideline of shoplifting—and Deborah, who can steal the watch off your wrist, but only as her alter ego, Sabine. Together, they’re the Booster Club.The women set about buying the abandoned firehouse where the children have been living, only to discover that a ruthless developer wants the land. With the help of Claudine’s father and a retirement home for petty criminals, they must concoct a scheme clever enough to outwit the developer, the uppity Women’s League, and at least one shady politician. Who are the crooks now?The Booster Club is the first in a new series of capers by the author of the Joanna Hayworth Vintage Clothing mysteries. If you like your crime writing quirky and heartwarming, you’ll love The Booster Club.

Can she skirt death? In this third book of the Joanna Hayworth Vintage Clothing mystery series, Joanna lands the dream assignment of dressing a bride for her celebrity wedding at a remote mountain lodge. The bridal gown is the rare and disturbing Tears dress from Schiaparelli’s 1938 circus collection. Add one monstrous snowstorm, a mother who can’t stop reliving her Studio 54 days, a New Age minister with a mysterious past, a temperamental young chef—and a growing number of corpses—and Joanna’s dream soon becomes a nightmare. Slain in Schiaparelli adds a witty, contemporary twist on the classic country manor mystery.

The Booster Club has a plan, and it’s about to come unraveled, big time. This ragtag bunch of former petty criminals springs art forger Adele from prison so she can make amends for her past. Gilda, a retired blackmailer, leads the charge. All the Boosters have to do is steal the forged paintings back. What could go wrong?

A greedy developer bent on revenge, Adele’s soured love affair with a starry-eyed ex-prison warden, and a fight over Marie Antoinette’s dog bed: that’s what. If the Boosters can’t get a handle on this out-of-control heist, the whole scheme will topple – taking the Club with it.

Fans of Donald Westlake’s Dortmunder series will love the topsy-turvy twists and turns of the Booster Club’s heartwarming, comedic caper.

It’s a situation tailor-made for trouble. Portland, Oregon, vintage clothing store owner Joanna Hayworth is in a tight spot. Her plans to upgrade her store have derailed and costs are mounting. When she wins three trunks of vintage haute couture at auction, she thinks her luck has changed, but it’s about to get much worse. The clothing’s high society matron owner turns up poisoned, and police seize the wardrobe, leaving Joanna with more debt, a friend wrongly jailed for diamond theft, and a convent of quirky nuns depending on her for help. There only one way to calmer waters: find the murderer, and fast.

There’s no dressing up murder. All Portland vintage clothing store owner Joanna Hayworth wants to do is turn her back on the modern world and retreat into a carefully curated life of satin cocktail gowns, icy martinis, and old movies. But when Joanna finds a key in a 1930s Lanvin coat cast off by an ex-showgirl, everything changes. The elderly woman turns up dead, and Joanna is pulled into a long-ago drama of back room deals, blackmail, and lost love. She must find a very real—and present day—killer before she becomes his next victim.

The Booster Club has a plan, and it’s about to come unraveled, big time. This ragtag bunch of former petty criminals springs art forger Adele from prison so she can make amends for her past. Gilda, a retired blackmailer, leads the charge. All the Boosters have to do is steal the forged paintings back. What could go wrong?

A greedy developer bent on revenge, Adele’s soured love affair with a starry-eyed ex-prison warden, and a fight over Marie Antoinette’s dog bed: that’s what. If the Boosters can’t get a handle on this out-of-control heist, the whole scheme will topple – taking the Club with it.

Fans of Donald Westlake’s Dortmunder series will love the topsy-turvy twists and turns of the Booster Club’s heartwarming, comedic caper.

“In the first of what I hope will be a long-running series, Angela Sanders has resurrected the art of the comic caper, and done so brilliantly. Quirky characters, lots of action, and hairpin plot turns make The Booster Club a must-read and pure gold entertainment.” ~PJ Alderman, New York Timesand USA Todaybestselling author of Haunting Jordan, a Port Chatham Cozy MysteryWhen it comes to good deeds, the Booster Club proves that crime pays. Claudine is a fourth generation cat burglar preparing to heist the famous Cabrini jewels when she’s drawn into finding a home for four children whose mother died in jail. She joins forces with Ruby—an outspoken hairdresser with a sideline of shoplifting—and Deborah, who can steal the watch off your wrist, but only as her alter ego, Sabine. Together, they’re the Booster Club.The women set about buying the abandoned firehouse where the children have been living, only to discover that a ruthless developer wants the land. With the help of Claudine’s father and a retirement home for petty criminals, they must concoct a scheme clever enough to outwit the developer, the uppity Women’s League, and at least one shady politician. Who are the crooks now?The Booster Club is the first in a new series of capers by the author of the Joanna Hayworth Vintage Clothing mysteries. If you like your crime writing quirky and heartwarming, you’ll love The Booster Club.

Can she skirt death? In this third book of the Joanna Hayworth Vintage Clothing mystery series, Joanna lands the dream assignment of dressing a bride for her celebrity wedding at a remote mountain lodge. The bridal gown is the rare and disturbing Tears dress from Schiaparelli’s 1938 circus collection. Add one monstrous snowstorm, a mother who can’t stop reliving her Studio 54 days, a New Age minister with a mysterious past, a temperamental young chef—and a growing number of corpses—and Joanna’s dream soon becomes a nightmare. Slain in Schiaparelli adds a witty, contemporary twist on the classic country manor mystery.

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